The Swedish court has ruled that the Pirate Bay four will receive an appeal, scheduled for November 9, 2009. The Pirate Bay four were convicted of "assisting in making copyright content available" through their website, The Pirate Bay.

The ruling placed massive penalties on the Pirate Bay four, at $3.6 million ($905,000 each) in fines and up to one year in prison. Since the trial, the Swedish government has ruled the four defendants "too broke" to pay for the damages. Instead the Swedish authorities started sending cease and desist letters to one of the Pirate Bay's ISP, bringing the website down. The website was later restored within hours of the shut down.

The world will be watching when the Pirate Bay four take the stand once again, this time the courts have cleared two weeks for the appeal. The appeal will be handled by Judge Ulrika Ihrfelt, who was removed earlier in the trial because she was linked to pro-copyright groups herself.